Jeffrey Tate

Jeffrey Tate
Jeffrey Tate CBEis an English conductor...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth28 April 1943
call conducting eternal itself people supposed unless
People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can't unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for me.
easily harsh might orchestras people slowly
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.
pianist type
Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.
ambient debt medical profession surgery
I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.
conductor fiery huge hysteria ideas musical prefer romantic sincerity time
I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence.
center puts totally
I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.
music expression perfect
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
healthy conducting profession
Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
littles bits little-bit
So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.
europe two house
In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.